Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real.
~By Amy Grant ~
Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.
~By Lorna Luft ~
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
~By Thomas Hood ~
But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
~By Walter Scott ~
In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.
~By Gwen John ~
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.
~By Richard Attenborough ~
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about.
~By Steve Israel ~
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
~By Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ~
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.
~By Lucille Roybal Allard ~
The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.
~By Laurie Lee ~
The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
~By Sam Snead ~
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
~By Gaston Bachelard ~
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
~By Frank Moore Colby ~
I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.
~By Grandma Moses ~
No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
~By Greil Marcus ~
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
~By Jerome K. Jerome ~
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.
~By Gary Kemp ~
I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
~By Whitney Houston ~
An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.
~By Tom Coburn ~
These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
~By Sam Snead ~
They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.
~By Joshua Sylvester ~
A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.
~By Amy Levy ~
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
~By John Ruskin ~
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
~By Ralph Ellison ~
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
~By Lao Tzu ~
It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.
~By Conrad Hall ~
A child can escape the shadows.
~By Steve Largent ~
I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.
~By Bill Wyman ~
We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.
~By Kenneth H. Cooper ~
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
~By Hilaire Belloc ~
The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.
~By David Trimble ~
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
~By Oswald Chambers ~
Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.
~By Georg Trakl ~
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
~By Lucan ~
Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.
~By Evita Peron ~
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
~By George Steiner ~
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
~By Charles Dickens ~
A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
~By Jim DeMint ~
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
~By Charlotte Whitton ~
The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.
~By David Selby ~
You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.
~By Wayne Shorter ~
It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
~By Kate Chopin ~
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
~By Helen Keller ~
Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
A human being is only breath and shadow.
~By Sophocles ~
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
~By Jean Racine ~
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.
~By Ernie Pyle ~
Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
~By William Griffith Wilson ~
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
~By Kenneth Clark ~
Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.
~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
A little man often cast a long shadow.
~By G. M. Trevelyan ~
I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.
~By Lorna Luft ~
Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.
~By Matthew Fox ~
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
~By Buddha ~
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
~By Arnold H. Glasow ~
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
~By Sydney Smith ~
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
~By Austin O'Malley ~
You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.
~By Bruce Sterling ~
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
~By Theodore Dreiser ~
I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.
~By Sophocles ~
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.
~By Marcel Marceau ~
My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.
~By Christopher Hitchens ~
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
~By Roger Waters ~
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
~By Rudyard Kipling ~
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
~By Dale Turner ~
The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
~By Rita Dove ~
Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.
~By Cordell Hull ~
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
~By George MacDonald ~
Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
~By Jean Genet ~
It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below.
~By Francis Parkman ~
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
~By Toru Takemitsu ~
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.
~By Hermann Minkowski ~
The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.
~By Elizabeth Bishop ~
In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
~By August Sander ~
Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
~By John Fletcher ~
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.
~By George Washington Cable ~
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
~By Claude McKay ~
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